Form-table.



R. T. JOHNSTON.

FORM TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30,1912.

1,104,048. Patented July 21, 1914-.

UNITED s ATEsra E T OFFICE.

ROBERT T. JOHNSTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR To THE GOSS PRINTING PRESS COMPANY, OE CHICAGO, ILLINOI A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

FORM-TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. j

' Patented July 21, 1914.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT T. JOHNSTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Form-Tables, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to form tables.

It is customary in printing establishmentsto set up the form in a chase which has strong side walls but which has no bottom plate. In consequence of the lack of a bottom plate, it is advisable and usual to avoid as much as possible any lifting of the chase. Whenever a form is to be moved from. one point to another, it is usual to slide the chase Onto a form table having a smooth upper surface and mounted on caster wheels so that it can be wheeled from one point to another. Care has been heretofore taken to provide that as many as possible of the tables to and from which the form must be transferred should be of the same height above the floor, but even when two tables re of the same height the unevenness of the floor is often such that the tables when arranged side by side do not stand in such alinement as to make a sliding transfer of a form of type from one to the other easy andsafe.

It is the object of this invention to provide means by which two tables may be alined properly for the transfer of a form of type from one to the other regardless of any slight differences in their height and regardless of any slight offsets or unevenness in the floor. The means by which I have. accomplished this object are illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter specifically described.

That which I believe to be new is set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one type of form table provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is perspective view of a wheeled form table of an ordinary type. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail, showing the form of bracket which I prefer to use.

Referring to the several figures of the drawings, in which corresponding parts are indicated by the same reference characters, 10 indicates a table of a well-known type to which a form is designed to be transferred, the table illustrated being a steamd-rying table.

ll'indicates a wheeled form table of any approved type, the top 12 of which is slightly lower in height than the top- 1.3 of the table 10, as is shown in Fig. 3 in solid lines. v

14 indicates a plurality of brackets or other inclined members, each of which memhere has an outer and upper inclined face 15.

16 indicates the upper horizontal face of each of the brackets 14.

As will be readily understood, when the wheeled table 11 is moved toward the table 10 into close proximity thereto, the table.11 has sliding contact with the inclined faces 15 of two of the inclined members 14, where by the top 12 along its edge adjacent to the table 10 is raised throughout its length to a position even with'the edge of the top of the table 10. It is clear that with the tables in this position a form may be easily and safely slid from one of said tables to the other and that'this desired condition is not affected in the least by any unevenness there may be in the floor upon which the tables stand.

While I have shown only one type of bracket 14, which in the construction shown is rigidly connected to the table 10 and is therefore not adjustable, and which bracket has its front face inclined inward toward. the table and upward and is therefore effective only to raise the other table without affecting the position of the table upon which it is mounted, it will be understood that I do not restrict myself to those particular features of the construction of the bracket except as hereinafter specifically claimed, the essence of the invention consisting in the provision of means for bringing the upper adjacent edges of the tops of the tables even with each other whether such tables are of precisely the same height above the floor or not. Moreover, while I have shown the table 11 as being lifted bodily by its contact with the bracket 14, it will be understood that I do not restrict myself to I this particular feature, except as hereinafter specifically claimed, the object being to render the tops of the tables even as above described.

While I have described the contact between one of the tables and the inclined faces of the brackets carried by the other table as What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. The combination of a table, a second table the top of which is'slightly lower than the top of said first-mentioned table, and a member having an inclined face carried by one of said tables, with the inclined face of which member the other table has sliding contact when one of said tables is moved toward the other whereby the adjacent edges of the tops of said tables are brought to the same level.

2. The combination of a table, a second table the top of which is slightly lower than the top of said first-mentionedtable and a member carried by said first-mentioned table having an inclined outer and upper face, with the inclined face of which member the other table has sliding contact when one of said tables is moved toward the other where by the upper edge of the top of said second per edge of the top of the other table.

- 3. The combination of a stationary table,

a wheeled table the top of which is slightly I lower than the top of said stationary table, 1

and a member carried by said stationary table having an inclined outer and upper face, with the inclined face of which member the wheeled table has sliding contact wvhen it is moved toward said stationary table whereby the upper edge of the top of said wheeled table is brought even with the adjacent upper edge of the top of the stationary table.

4. The combination of a stationary table stationary table spaced apart along one side one or more of which brackets the ROBERT T. JOHNSTON.

Witnesses:

W. H. DE BUSK, R S. BELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five eents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washingthn, D. G.

a wheeled table the top of which is slightly lower than the top of said stationary table, and a plurality of brackets carried by said 1 thereof, each ,of the brackets having an inclined outer and upper face and an adjoining horizontal upper face, with the inclined face of wheeled table has sliding contact when it is moved toward said stationary table whereby the upper edge of the top of said I wheeled table is brought even with the adjacent upper edge of the top of the station E ary table with the abutting end of the vwheeledtable supported on the horizontal j faces of said brackets.

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